Book Launch: Working With Nature Against Poverty: Development, Resources and the Environment in Eastern Indonesia

The Indonesia Project, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, cordially invites you to a book launch.

Friday 19 June, 4.00pm
Foyer of the Hedley Bull Centre, ANU

To be launched by H.E. Mr. Primo Alui Joelianto, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, and Prof Hal Hill, the Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Edited by Budy P Resosudarmo and Frank Jotzo
Published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

With its low incomes, lagging social indicators and widespread poverty, eastern Indonesia epitomizes the problems of development in Indonesia. The challenge is to advance the economy. But this means more intensive use of natural resources, placing pressure on the region's unique ecosystems.

This book explores the trade-offs and synergies between development, social concerns and the environment in Papua, Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara. It is written by leading scholars and experts on the region. They investigate the dilemmas of fishing in eastern Indonesia's seas, the strategies and challenges for mining and forestry, and the efforts to tackle biodiversity conservation and climate change. The book lays out the challenges for development, public administration and public health in Papua. It maps Maluku's road to recovery from conflict. And it examines ways to alleviate poverty in the desperately poor province of East Nusa Tenggara. The book provides an overview of the economy of each of these provinces.

The Indonesia Project thanks AusAID for its support.